I really enjoyed this "expert" discussion and I'm bubbling with ideas about what my final itec project will be. I'm definitely going to start becoming my own expert on Drupal, Ed 2.0, moodle etc so that I can design a learning management system for my classes. I didn't have this project until last thursday nite so I'm indebted to our experts for their very informative presentation.
Which brings up a problem. As we move forward into new territory, can the itec program keep up? This year I've been taking seminar classes but next year it's about skill development. I tentatively plan to take dreamweaver and flash classes but I'm increasingly seeing that I need these skills less and less as web 2.0 develops. I started the program with a goal to create an awesome educational website so dreamweaver and flash made sense, but now I'm leaning more toward modifying something like drupal or moodle to create a learning management system. Where will I develop these skills. Sure..I can do my own research, join a user group, troll the forums and blogs for useful tidbits, but I only have so much free time and I can't both spend my monday/thursday evenings in a classroom (and my weekends doing homework for those classes) AND develop these outside skill sets. I'm burning candles at both ends already.
Perhaps the itec program can take a page out of it's own book and allow us to take elearning courses offered elsewhere and apply them as classes toward our degree? Of course, this brings up a money issue. Clearly sf state will want there $1500 a semester AND the elearning course will want tuition too!! I can't afford both on a teachers salary.
clearly a connundrum I must address..............but not today.
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Hey Marc. Yeah I too came to the realization that technical skills are waning in importance (esp. as pertains to ID and if one wants to pursue the right-brain type things). I took Flash, but that's all. I think that the tools of the near future, if they are good ones, will have very little to almost no learning curves. The unique aspect of ID will be mostly in the way we can put together instruction and how nice we make it look - not whether or not we can crank out code or flash or anything like that.
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